THE Critics’ Choice Awards It is one of the main awards of the season, and the 2025 edition takes place this Friday (2), at 21h, in Los Angeles, United States. The 30th ceremony will be Transmitted in Brazil by TNT and Max Warner Bros. streaming service. Discovery.
Considered by many to be a Oscar Thermometer a Award hit 60% of the best film winners of the biggest tribute in Hollywood cinema since the creation in 1995, according to analysis by the CNN .
Watch the award -winning movies at Critics Choice Awards and Oscar
- “AMERICAN BEAUTY”
- “Gladiator”
- “A brilliant mind”
- “Chicago”
- “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
- “The infiltrates”
- “Where the weak have no time”
- “Who wants to be a millionaire?”
- “War to Terror”
- “The Artist”
- “Argo”
- “12 years of slavery”
- “Birdman”
- “Spotlight”
- “The shape of the water”
- “Nomadland”
- “All everywhere at the same time“
- “OPPENHEIMER“
THE Last divergence occurred in 2016 when the Oscar statuette went to Alejandro Iñarritu, for “the return,” while Critics chose to reward George Miller for “Mad Max: Road of Fury.
And in the categories of action and direction?
The hit rate at the Best actress however, it is lower. Over the age of 30, Critics and Oscar coincided 56.67% sometimes. Over the past 10 years, this has occurred only four times, with Frances McDormand (“three announcements for a crime”), Renée Zellweger (“Judy”). Jessica Chastain (“Tammy Faye’s eyes”) and Emma Stone (“poor creatures”).
In the case of the Best actor the Critics got it right in 20 of 30 times, accumulating a rate of 66.67% of accuracy. Between 2004 and 2011, for example, the two awards laurea the same actors.
The highest hit rate, however, is for the category of best director, with more than 85% . In the 30 years, the Critics has awarded the same filmmaker as the Oscar on 24 occasions . It’s been nine years in a row coinciding with the Academy Award.
What is Critics’ Choice Awards?
Created in 1995 by Critics Choice Association (CCA), the largest critical entity in the United States and Canada, the Choice Awards Critics has consolidated itself as one of the most influential awards of the awards season serving as a reference for the Oscar by highlighting possible favorites.
Especially because it is one of the few crop events that is transmitted to the whole world. That’s why, be nominated or win A Critics Choice Award, significantly increases visibility and the credibility of a movie or series.
Who votes for Critics’ Choice Awards?
Today, according to Joey Berlin CEO of the CCA, the awards are determined by 576 members . There are another 100 non -voting members. “It is a remarkably diverse and inclusive group that qualifies to vote by reaching a large audience regularly with its coverage of new films and/or television,” he said in an interview with Variety magazine.
According to the official website, to vote, it is necessary to meet specific requirements to join the association, including the fact that all members must be “film critics or TV journalists, whose coverage of a wide range of films shown in theaters or transmitted is regularly available to a large audience ”.
There are Brazilian critics who also vote for the prize, such as Waldemar Dalenoge, Fabiana Lima , Cleide Klock and others.
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With information from Flávio Ismerim and Flávio Pinto, from CNN
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